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Anchoring UK Retail Digital Money

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  • Lee Braine
  • Shreepad Shukla
  • Piyush Agrawal

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In the UK, the Bank of England and HM Treasury are exploring a potential UK retail CBDC, the digital pound, with one of their motivations being the potential role of the digital pound as an anchor for monetary and financial stability. In this paper, we explore three elements for anchoring money (singleness of money, official currency as the unit of account, and safety and soundness of financial institutions and payment systems) that maintain public trust and confidence in private UK retail digital money and the financial system. We also identify core capabilities (comprising on-demand interoperability across issuers and forms of private money, settlement finality in wholesale central bank money, and access to physical cash) and appropriate measures (comprising customer funds protection, robust regulation, effective supervision, safe innovation in money and payments, and the central bank as the lender of last resort) that together provide the foundations for the three elements for anchoring money. Our preliminary analysis concludes that anchoring private UK retail digital money is supported by these elements, capabilities and measures. Further work could include public-private collaboration to explore anchoring all forms of UK retail digital money.

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  • Lee Braine & Shreepad Shukla & Piyush Agrawal, 2024. "Anchoring UK Retail Digital Money," Papers 2409.18532, arXiv.org.
  • Handle: RePEc:arx:papers:2409.18532
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